The Steam Brick is a deconstructed Steam Deck with only core hardware The creator made it smaller to make it more portable and convenient for travel. Visit GitHub for a detailed process on how to create your own Steam Brick,

Ridiculous it may be, but by god, it works. The Steam Brick will still boot and connect to external peripherals with its screen and all controls save the power button removed. Tragically, crastinator-pro notes that the newer revision Steam Deck OLED is preferable for the mod⁠—RIP to that beautiful screen us Steam Deck early adopters would kill for.

The result is the Steam Brick, a handheld that has been transformed into a home console out of necessity. According to the modder, the stock Steam

Handhelds are designed to be portable, but what if you need something smaller than OEM? The Steam Brick pulls basically everything off of a Steam Deck to make it as portable as possible.

With the Steam Brick, paired with a set of smart glasses and a small external controller (which many Steam Deck users already carry while traveling), you now have a portable gaming console that can truly go anywhere.

Pro, the impetus for creating the Steam Brick might not be what you expect. As explained on GitHub, the Steam Brick was created because the Steam Deck is